Kolkata : A total of 176 players were drafted from a pool of over 450 cricketers in the inaugural Bengal Pro T20 League draft at a glitzy ceremony at a city hotel on Sunday.
The players were picked by the 8 franchisees namely Sobisco Smashers Malda, Adamas Howrah Warriors, ServoTech Siliguri Strikers, Harbour Diamonds, Rarh Tigers Burdwan| Birbhum, Lux-Shyam Kolkata Royal Tigers, Murshidabad Kings & Kueens and Reshmi Medinipur Wizards.
The CAB Office bearers led by President Snehasish Ganguly, along with Vice-President Amalendu Biswas, Hony. Secretary Naresh Ojha, Jt. Secretary Debabrata Das, and Treasurer Prabir Chakraborty were present on the occasion. Also present were the Apex Council Members and Chairpersons of various committees.
Speaking about the draft, CAB President Snehasish Ganguly said: “The drafting process was very exciting. All the eight teams looked well balanced and competitive. I am looking forward to 17 days of pulsating cricket. The draft process once again shows the deep talent pool we have and the tournament will throw up new stars for the future.”
Also present for the occasion was former BCCI and CAB President Sourav Ganguly. He said the game had evolved a lot from the days he used to play. “The advent of T20 cricket has taken the world to a new level. We can see that from the IPL and other leagues. I hope the Bengal Pro T20 League will be hugely successful and new and young players will come up from this league who will represent the nation in future,” he said.
The lucky draws were done by CAB President Snehasish Ganguly after which the draft process began with the franchises actively selecting their teams with the help of their respective think tank led by the coaches, coaching staff and marquee players.
TEAMS:
1. Rarh Tigers: Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Suman Das, Sourav Paul, Sandipan Das, Arindam Ghosh, Sumanta Gupta, Satyaki Dutta, Arka Sarkar, Vineet Maurya, Priyam Sarkar, Arnab Nandi, Ayan Gupta, Ravi Kant Singh, Akshay Ramani, Ashutosh Kumar (U19), Rohit Pradhan (U19).
Stand-by: Aditya Roy, Akash Ghatak, Priyanshu Patel, Sumit Mohanta, Avirup Gupta.
2. ServoTech Siliguri Strikers: Akash Deep, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Vikas Singh, Abhishek Kumar Raman, Rajkumar Pal, Ankur Paul, Shantanu, Yuvraj Deepak Keswani, Tuhin Banerjee, Mahadeb Datta, Rahul Gupta, Rohit Kumar, Aditya Singh, Rishabh Vivek, Vishal Bhati (U19), Yudhajit Guha(U19)
Stand-By: Ayush Roy, Aniket Biswas, Arikta Das, Saikat Banerjee, Sayan Kr Biswas, Nikhil Singh
3. Rashmi Medinipur Wizards: Easwaran Abhimanyu, Ishan Porel, Kaushik Maity, Vivek Singh, Vaibhav Yadav, Sudip Chatterjee, Deepak Kumar, Gaurav Singh Chauhan, Shreyan Chakraborty, Arin Roy, Rahul Kundu, Priyanshu Gaurav Srivastav, Anubhav Tyagi, Sahitya Hazra, Sonu Narayan Naubagh, Arjun Singh (U19) Abhiprai Biswas (U19)
Stand-By: Ayush Ghosh, Shivansh Chaudhary, Akash Biswas, Akash Sarkar, Deepak Kumar Mahato
4. Adamas Howrah Warriors: Anustup Majumdar, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Saksham Chaudhary, Abhishek Das, Pramod Chandila, Sujit Kumar Yadav, Kanishk Seth, Aamir Gani, Debopratim Halder, Soumyadip Mandal, Sk Asif Hossain, Saksham Sharma, Raju Halder, Pankaj Shaw, Rahul Prasad, Ankush Sur(U19), Mahipal Yadav (U19).
Stand-by: Agniswar Das, Harsimar Singh Patheja, Ejaj Ahamed Mallick, Nuruddin Mondal, Rahul.
5. Lux-Shyam Kolkata Royal Tigers: Avishek Porel, Karan Lal, Subham Chatterjee, Sayan Ghosh, Akash Pandey, Sandeep Kumar Tomar, Vishwajit Mishra, Avilin Ghosh, Avinash Kumar, Ompal Boken, Ronit Ghosh, Snehashish Saha, Saurabh Srivastav, Anik Nandi, Sanjib Goswami, Mayank Jha (U19),Subhankar Dey (U19).
Stand-by: Ayush Sahai, Sayan Mukherjee, Ananta Saha, Abhijit Mal, Arun Kr Chaurasia.
6. Harbour Diamonds: Manoj Tiwari, Md Kaif, Prayas Ray Barman, Suvankar Bal, Aman Singh Shekhawat, Anurag Tiwari, Sayan Shekhar Mandal, Subham Sarkar, Poonish Mehta, Abhijeet Bhagat, Kaushik Giri, Badal Singh Balyan, Debabrata Das, Shashank Singh, Aritra Chatterjee, Chandrahas Dash (U19), Vivek Singh (U19)
Stand-By: Subhankar Purakayastha, Balkesh Yadav, Abhishek Bose, Pritam Chakraborty, Fahim Naaz
7. Murshidabad Kings: Sudip Kumar Gharami, Agniv Pan, Ravi Kumar, Toufik Uddin Mondal, Aditya Purohit, Nitin Verma, Vikas Singh, Avijit Singh, Koushik Ghosh, Dilshad Khan, Tanmoy Pramanick, Suprodip Debnath, Shuvam Dey Sr, Samik Karmakar, Sayed Irfan Aftab, Jeet Thakur (U19), Ankit Chatterjee (U19)
Stand-By: Debarghya Rakshit, Sachin Kumar Yadav, Sukhmeet Singh, Rishabh Chaudhary, Akash Shukla
8. Sobisco Smashers Malda: Mukesh Kumar, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Geet Puri, Kaif Ahmad, Writtick Chatterjee, Ramesh Prasad, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Jayojit Basu,Gitimoy Basu, Ayan Bhattacharjee, Anmol Prasad, Akhil, Writam Porel, Prabhat Maurya, Kumar Aditya, Ganoranjan Kapat (U19), Bhoirob De Sarkar (U19)
Stand-by: Siddharth Ghosh, Sambit Nag, Durgesh Kr Dubey, Anuj Kr Singh, Karn Kr Paswan.
